A U.S. company denounced the National Environmental Authority (ANAM) on Monday for allegedly requesting $100,000 to approve an environmental impact study for an all inclusive residential community on Lake Gatun. Armando Silvestre, Manager of the La Reserva community, said that Francisco Garzon, advisor to ANAM’S Deputy Administrator, proposed streamlining the approval at a March meeting....
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Today, the French court sentenced Manuel Noriega to seven years in prison for laundering millions of dollars in drug money. The three-judge panel also ordered the seizure of $2.89 million that has been frozen in Noriega’s accounts and demanded that he pay $1.3 million in damages to Panama and $2.9 million in customs fines....
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Ñame producers of the Ocu district are asking the government to compensate them for the loss of 100 million quintals (or 100 pound units a.k.a. a hundredweight) of the root valued at approximately one million dollars. Wilfredo Pimentel, President of Roots and Tubers Producers Association of Ocu, recognized that the recession in the United States,...
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